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( hiding from the preceptors has become a habit, nearly second nature. he understands this is his fate and duty as the luofu's high elder, that he needs to be served and watched over, and though they would never dare to look down on his powers, they are there to protect him, too. he understands all of that, but finds it suffocating time and time again. he knows above all else that he's different from his former incarnation, the yinyue-jun before him; that ultimately, dan feng misbehaves, and goes against the preceptors' words, that he gives them too much trouble.

he's hard to control, he knows. for all the things he may be ignorant about for how secluded his upbringing was, this much he's aware of. that the relationship between yinyue-jun and their preceptors isn't one of trust, but something far more complex than that.

a moment of peace and quiet is always what he asks for; that the weight that comes with the burden of his title doesn't suffocate him, that he still remembers he's dan feng, that within his chest beats a heart just as human. he's a known face, as it was the one before him, and the one before that. the reflection on the waters he controls at will yell yinyue-jun back at him, and crouched by the shore of the beaches in the dragonhall vista, he finds irony in it. that despite being under his jurisdiction, as with everything else that is under him, they obey to his title more than his name.

dan feng runs gloved fingers through his reflection on the water, that cursed face that is equal amounts his and not, and rids himself of it, if only temporarily. )